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Check out

verb

Examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition. Synonyms: check, check into, check over, check up on, go over, look into, suss out. "Check out the engine"

Announce one's departure from a hotel.

Be verified or confirmed; pass inspection. Synonym: check.

Trace. Synonym: run down.

Record, add up, and receive payment for items purchased.

Withdraw money by writing a check. Synonym: cheque.

Try to learn someone's opinions and intentions. Synonyms: feel out, sound out.

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"Check out" Quotes from Famous Books

... less dark Costa Rican, Guatemalteco, Venezuelan, stray islanders from St. Vincent, Trinidad, or Guadalupe, individuals defying classification. But the chief reward for denying myself a holiday were the "back-calls" in the town itself which I was able to check out of my field-book. Many a long-sought negro I roused from his holiday siesta, dashing past the tawdry calico curtains to pound him awake—mere auricular demonstration having only the effect of lulling him into deeper child-like slumber. The surest and often only effective ...

— Zone Policeman 88 - A Close Range Study of the Panama Canal and its Workers • Harry A. Franck

Words linked to "Check out" : jibe, keep an eye on, run down, analyse, check, study, report, match, watch, check in, check off, buy, tick, agree, follow up on, withdraw, mark, fit, analyze, mark off, follow, question, purchase, examine, draw, pursue, draw off, act on, tick off, observe, canvas, correspond, canvass, query, watch over, checkout, tally, gibe, sound out, take out